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Quotes FromThe Islamic World

Updated 21 October 2014

We proudly present a collection of Quotes from the leaders of Islam and the Muslim World. This is maintained for the historical record. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do.

"The Quran obliges every able Muslim to participate in jihad and fight in the way of Allah those who fight you, and kill them wherever you find them ... an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."
-- Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Underwear Bomber, in a statement on the second day of his trial where he suddenly pleaded guilty to all charges, 16 February 2012

"If they are white kill ‘em all. Why kill the women? Why kill the babies? They are just innocent blue-eyed babies? Because god dammit they are going to grow up one day to rule your babies. Kill them now. Why kill the women in South Africa? I say kill the women because the women are the military manufacturing center. And every nine months they lay down on their backs and reinforcement rolls out from between their legs, so shut down the military manufacturing center by killing the white woman. Why kill the older crackers? The old crippled crackers in South Africa. How in the hell you think they got old? They got old oppressing and killing black people. Kill 'em all. Kill the faggot. Kill the lesbian. And after you've killed them all. I say then you go to the god damn grave, and dig 'em up, and then kill 'em a-god-damn gain because they didn't die hard enough."
-- Khalid Muhammad, current member of the New Black Panthers Partyand former spokesman for the Nation of Islam, 13 August 2012

"If we were united and strong, we'd elect our own emir (leader) and give allegiance to him... Take my word, if 6-8 million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us."
-- Siraj Wahaj, a black convert to Islam and the recipient of some of the American Muslim community's highest honors, had the privilege of becoming the first Muslim to deliver the daily prayer in the U.S. House of Representatives

"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith but to become dominant."
-- Omar Ahmad, Co-Founder CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)

"There is no god worthy of worship except Allah. Muhammad...peace be upon him is the final messenger from Allah. Islam is the true religion and the only religion acceptable to Allah."
-- Michael Storms, average typical Muslim, follower of Hamza Yusuf

"I am proud to kill in the name of God."
-- Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Underwear Bomber, in a statement on the second day of his trial where he suddenly pleaded guilty to all charges, 16 February 2012

"I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future."
-- Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR's current communications director

"At the end of the day, innocent people, when we say innocent people we mean Muslims...if you are non-Muslim then you are guilty... I must have hatred toward everything not-Islam."
-- Imam Anjem Choudary

"They may say one thing to you in front of CNN but I can assure you behind your backs... they are standing with their Muslim brother and sisters... It is an Islamic obligation."
-- Imam Anjem Choudary

"The Shariah is the divine law sent by Allah... It is justice for mankind... It is a noble thing to invite someone to a superior way of life."
-- Imam Anjem Choudary

"Jerusalem belongs to us, and the whole world belongs to us!"
-- Shaykh Safwat Hegazy, Egyptian member of the Muslim Brotherhood in a recent video threatened all non-Muslims

"We love death more than you love life."
-- Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 and wounding of 30 fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, TX

"We love death more than you love life."
-- Adis Medunjanin, part of a 911 call made in New York City after crashing his car while fleeing from federal agents who had confiscated his passport

"I want to destroy everything here as they did the Al Aqsa mosque. It's a symbol of occupation. Destroying it is a symbol of Islam."
-- Mahmoud Malahi speaking about destroying Jewish settlements in the name of Islam

"I am telling you that my religion [Islam] doesn't tolerate other religions. It doesn't tolerate. The only one law which needs to be spread, it can be here or anywhere else has to be Islam."
-- Cleric Abdul Nacer Benbrika in an interview with ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) in November 2005

"We have come to you... with people who love death more than you love life."
-- Ansar Jund Allah, Commander Of Gaza Organization

"A Muslim man can have sexual pleasure with a little girl as young as a baby. But he should not penetrate her vaginally, however he can sodomize her"
-- Imam Khomeini, the top Shia authority, Tehriro vasyleh, fourth edition, Qom, Iran, 1990

"The believers in Allah rightly do not dread their enemies and do not fear Jihad, because they see Jihad as a profitable bargain, selling their lives to Allah to get paradise in return. Their enemies protect their own lives, as criminals do. Allah has already said about them: 'You will find that they are the people who protect their own life more than anyone else.' The believers do not fear the enemy during the struggle and do not protect their lives. Allah has promised them one of two good things: [either] victory or martyrdom... Yet their enemies protect their lives like a miser protects his money. They do not give their lives easily; they do not enter into battles seeking martyrdom; they do not act in order to attain martyrdom. This is the secret of the believers' victory over their enemies - though the believers are few and the polytheists many, with advanced weaponry and equipment."
-- Abdallah Al-Naggar, a religious columnist for the Egyptian government daily Al-Gumhuriya

"Israel has a people's army and a draft and therefore they should be considered legitimate targets. They are part of the occupying power, and Palestinians consider them targets for suicide bombers as well as other means."
-- Mohamed Elmasry, Imam and President of the Canadian Islamic Congress

"If they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide."
-- Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General of Lebanon's Hezbollah (or "Party of God"), Daily Star, 23 October 2002

"If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice, I do not say the Israeli."
-- Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General of Lebanon's Hezbollah (or "Party of God"), New Yorker, 14 October 2002

"One of the central reasons for creating Hezbollah was to challenge the Zionist program in the region. Hezbollah still preserves this principle, and when an Egyptian journalist visited me after the liberation and asked me if the destruction of Israel and the liberation of Palestine and Jerusalem were Hezbollah's goal, I replied: 'That is the principal objective of Hezbollah, and it is no less sacred than our ultimate goal. The generation that lived through the creation of this entity is still alive. This generation watches documentaries and reads documents that show that the land conquered was called Palestine, not Israel.' We face an entity that conquered the land of another people, drove them out of their land, and committed horrendous massacres. As we see, this is an illegal state; it is a cancerous entity and the root of all the crises and wars and cannot be a factor in bringing about a true and just peace in this region. Therefore, we cannot acknowledge the existence of a state called Israel, not even far in the future, as some people have tried to suggest. Time does not cancel the legitimacy of the Palestinian claim."
-- Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General of Lebanon's Hezbollah (or "Party of God"), Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2002

"The second effort was spreading the word among the people, first, in a bid to raise their morale, and second to instil in them a sense of animosity towards the enemy, coupled with a spirit of resistence... this required us to use the language of indoctrination rather than realpolitik. People then were not in need of political analysis, they were in need of being incited and goaded."
-- Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General of Lebanon's Hezbollah (or "Party of God"), Hala Jaber, Hezbollah Born With a Vengeance, Columbia University Press, 1997, pp. 49-50

"How can death become joyous? How can death become happiness? When Al-Hussein asked his nephew Al-Qassem, when he had not yet reached puberty: 'How do you like the taste of death, son?' He answered that it was sweeter than honey. How can the foul taste of death become sweeter than honey? Only through conviction, ideology, and faith, through belief, and devotion... We do not want to... leave our homeland to Israel... Therefore, we are not interested in our own personal security. On the contrary, each of us lives his days and nights hoping more than anything to be killed for the sake of Allah."
-- Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General of Lebanon's Hezbollah (or "Party of God"), Al-Manar TV , 18-19 Febuary 2005

"Let the entire world hear me. Our hostility to the Great Satan [America] is absolute... I conclude my speech with the slogan that will continue to reverberate on all occasions so that nobody will think that we have weakened. Regardless of how the world has changed after 11 September, Death to America will remain our reverberating and powerful slogan: Death to America"
-- Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General of Lebanon's Hezbollah (or "Party of God"),BBC Monitoring: Al-Manar, 27 September 2002

"It is our pride that the Great Satan (U.S.) and the head of despotism, corruption and arrogance in modern times considers us as an enemy that should be listed in the terrorism list...I say to every member of Hezbollah (should) be happy and proud that your party has been placed on the list of terrorist organizations as the U.S. view it"
-- Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General of Lebanon's Hezbollah (or "Party of God"), United Press International, 4 November 2001

"What else is wrong with 'suicide' bombing? Legally, less than what one might believe. While it may or may not be good strategy, it appears to be permissable under international law."
-- Enver Masud,The Wisdom Fund - "What's Wrong With Suicide Bombing?", 09 May 2002

"Palestine is occupied land, and under international law, the Palestinians have the legal right to resist this occupation by any and all means. This may make busses, restaurants, discos--where Israeli military congregate, lawful targets. "
-- Enver Masud,The Wisdom Fund - "What's Wrong With Suicide Bombing?", 09 May 2002

"We tell them, in as much as you love life, the Muslim loves death and martyrdom. There is a great difference between he who loves the hereafter and he who loves this world. The Muslim loves death and strives for martyrdom."
-- Mufti Sheikh Ikrimeh Sabri, Chief Palestinian Authority Cleric

"The Jews preached permissiveness and corruption, as they hid behind false slogans like freedom and equality, humanism and brotherhood... They are cowards in battle... they flee from death and fear fighting... They love life."
-- Saudi Sheikh Abd Al-Muhsin Al-Qassem in Al-Madina

"Islam is a revolutionary faith that comes to destroy any government made by man. Islam doesn't look for a nation to be in better condition than another nation. Islam doesn't care about the land or who own the land. The goal of Islam is to rule the entire world and submit all of mankind to the faith of Islam. Any nation or power in this world that tries to get in the way of that goal, Islam will fight and destroy."
-- Mawlana Abul Ala Mawdudi, founder of Pakistan's Fundamentalist Movement

"As far as the matters of religion are concerned we know for sure that only Islam is the true religion in the eyes of God. In 3:85 it is mentioned that God will never accept any religion other than Islam. As far as the building of churches or temples is concerned, how can we allow this when their religion is wrong? And when worship is also wrong? Thus we will surely not allow such wrong things in our country."
-- Dr. Zakir Naik, Islamic speaker and writer on the subject of Islam

"If a Muslim becomes a non-Muslim and propagates his/her new religion, then it is as good as treason. There is a Death Penalty in Islam for such a person."
-- Dr. Zakir Naik, Islamic speaker

"The honor of Islam lies in insulting the unbelief and the unbelievers (kafirs). One who respects kafirs dishonors Muslims."
-- Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi, in a publication by Islamic Jihad

"He who withholds the Jizya is an enemy of Allah and His apostle."
-- Muhammad, Prophet of Islam

"If the West wants to have peace, then they have to accept Islamic rule."
-- Abu Bakar Bashir, Muslim Cleric from Indonesia

"We like Mr. Obama, and we hope that he will win the elections."
-- Ahmed Yousuf, top Gaza Strip political adviser from HAMAS

"Muslims must educate their children to Jihad and to hatred of the Jews, the Christians, and the infidels."
-- Saudi preacher Sheikh Muhammad Saleh Al-Munajjid

"I could be joking and smiling [with infidels] and then cutting their throats in the next second."
-- American Muslim Tarik Shah, statement after being arrested for terrorist-related charges

"Arabs, rise as one man and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion. This saves your honor. God is with you. "
-- Hajj Amin al Husseini on German Nazi radio

"Christianity does consider homosexuality sinful, and Christians pray for homosexuals because of it, while Islamic law says they should be punished with death. See the difference?"
-- Awadh A. Binhazim, Adjunct Professor of Islam at the Divinity School and adviser to the Muslim Student Association at Vanderbilt University

"Islam believes that only Islam and the 'Camp of Kufur" [unbelief] exist, and that there is no way to reach Paradise... except by walking in the path of our Prophet Muhammad and joining Islam. Any other way leads to Hell... In light of this, my believing brethren, how can it be claimed that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are all paths leading to Allah?!"
-- Saudi Sheikh Adnan Ahmad Siyami, at a mosque in Mecca, 11 May 2001

"Our thanks go to the late Hitler who wrought, in advance, the vengeance of the Palestinians upon the most despicable villains on the face of the earth. However, we rebuke Hitler for the fact that the vengeance was insufficient."
-- al-Akhbar, Egypt's second largest newspaper

"Two years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon described the Gaza Strip settlement of Netzarim as a vital part of Israel's national security and now he is going to leave. That is because of the 'effective armed struggle'."
-- Zahir Muhsein, PLO executive committee member explaining how the Arabs are getting Gaza because of the success of their terrorism campaign

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism."
-- Zahir Muhsein, PLO executive committee member

"They are going to leave [Gaza], not because this is a gift from Israel. This is because they failed to confront our people, so don't describe their withdrawal from here...as a gift for the Palestinians. This is because they are defeated here. HAMAS will never recognize the existence of a Jewish State in the region."
-- Zahir Muhsein, PLO executive committee member in an interview at his home in Gaza

"We are the Palestinian nation. Our fate from Allah is to be the vanguard in the war against the Jews until the resurrection of the dead. As the prophet Mohammed said: 'The resurrection of the dead will not arrive until you will fight the Jews and kill them..."
-- Palestinian Authority Sermon, Palestinian TV, 28 July 2000

"The Jews are the Jews. There never was among them a supporter of peace. They are all liars... the true criminals, the Jewish terrorists, that slaughtered our children, that turned our wives into widows and our children into orphans, and desecrated our holy places. They are terrorists. Therefore it is necessary to slaughter them and murder them, according to the words of Allah... it is forbidden to have mercy in your hearts for the Jews and any place in any land. Make war on them any place that you find yourself. Any place that you encounter them - kill them. Kill the Jews and those among the Americans that are like them... Have no mercy on the Jews, murder them everywhere..."
-- Palestinian TV, 13 October 2000

"Of course Americans should vote Democrat."
-- Jihad Jaara, a senior member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group, and infamous leader of the 2002 siege of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, WorldNetDaily.com Friday, November 3, 2006

"We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion... We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem."
-- Yasser Arafat, Leader of the PLO

"Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs,... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem."
-- Yasser Arafat, Leader of the PLO, 2002

"I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand."
-- Yasser Arafat, Leader of the PLO

"Peace for us means the destruction of Israel."
-- Yasser Arafat, Leader of the PLO, 1980

"A man can marry a girl younger than nine years of age, even if the girl is still a baby being breastfed. A man, however is prohibited from having intercourse with a girl younger than nine, other sexual acts such as foreplay, rubbing, kissing and sodomy is allowed. A man having intercourse with a girl younger than nine years of age has not committed a crime, but only an infraction, if the girl is not permanently damaged. If the girl, however, is permanently damaged, the man must provide for her all her life. But this girl will not count as one of the man's four permanent wives. He also is not permitted to marry the girl's sister."
-- Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran quoting from a fatwa

"A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate; sodomising the child is OK. If the man penetrates and damages the child then he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl, however, does not count as one of his four permanent wives. The man will not be eligible to marry the girl's sister."
-- Ayatollah Khomeini's book, Tahrirolvasyleh, vol. 4, Darol Elm, Gom, Iran, 1990

"It is better for a girl to marry in such a time when she would begin menstruation at her husband's house rather than her father's home. Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven."
-- Ayatollah Khomeini's book, Tahrirolvasyleh, vol. 4, Darol Elm, Gom, Iran, 1990

"A man can have sex with animals such as sheeps, cows, camels and so on. However, he should kill the animal after he has his orgasm. He should not sell the meat to the people in his own village; however, selling the meat to the next door village should be fine."
-- Ayatollah Khomeini's book, Tahrirolvasyleh, vol. 4, Darol Elm, Gom, Iran, 1990

"The rulling to kill the Americans and their allies - civilians and military - is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in anyh country in which it is possible to do it... to comply iwth God's order to kill the Americnns and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it. We also call on Muslim ulema, leaders, youths, and soldiers to launch the raid on Satan's U.S. troops and the devil's supporters allying with them..."
-- Osama Bin Laden, Leader of al-Qaeda, Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders, 1998

"In compliance with God's order, we issue the following fatwah [ruling on Islamic law] to all Muslims: The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies - Civilians and military - is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it... to comply with God's order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it. We also call on Muslim ulema, leaders, youths, and soldiers to launch the raid on Satan's U.S troops and the devil's supporters allying with them..."
-- Osama Bin Laden, Leader of al-Qaeda, Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders, 1998

"We say our terror against America is blessed terror in order to put an end to suppression, in order for the United States to stop its support to Israel."
-- Osama Bin Laden, Leader of al-Qaeda

"Every Muslim, from the moment they realize the distinction in their hearts, hates Americans, hates Jews and hates Christians. For as long as I can remember, I have felt tormented and at war, and have felt hatred and animosity for Americans."
-- Osama Bin Laden, Leader of al-Qaeda

"We do not have homosexuals in Iran like you do [in America]."
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President, speaking at Columbia University on 24 September 2007, responding to the question why Iran executes homosexuals

"There is no doubt that the new wave [of attacks] in Palestine will wipe off this stigma [Israel] from the face of the Islamic world."
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President elected June 2005

"The accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible."
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President

"Israel must be wiped off the map."
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President, 2005

"Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury."
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President

"O Allah, destroy America, as it is controlled by Zionist Jews... Allah will avenge, in the name of His Prophet, the colonist settlers who are the descendents of monkeys and pigs..."
-- Ikrime Sabri, Mufti of the Palestinian Authority, weekly sermon in the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, Voice of Palestine, 11 July 1997

"The Jews are a cancer which is liable to spread again at any moment."
-- Hassan Nasrallah, Leader of Hezbollah

"There is no solution to the conflict except with the disappearance of Israel."
-- Hassan Nasrallah, Leader of Hezbollah

"If they all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide."
-- Hassan Nasrallah, Leader of Hezbollah

"Put a knife in your shirt, get close to an Israeli occupier and stab him."
-- Hassan Nasrallah, Leader of Hezbollah

"Let the entire world hear me. Our hostility to the Great Satan [America] is absolute."
-- Hassan Nasrallah, Leader of Hezbollah

"The Jews invented the legend of the Nazi atrocities... Anyone who reads the Koran and the holy writings of the monotheistic religions sees what they did to the prophets, and what acts of madness and slaughter the Jews carried out throughout history... Anyone who reads these texts cannot think of co-existence with them, of peace with them, or about accepting their presence, not only in Palestine of 1948 but even in a small village in Palestine, because they are a cancer which is liable to spread again at any moment."
-- Hassan Nasrallah, Leader of Hezbollah

"We have discovered how to hit the Jews where they are the most vulnerable. The Jews love life, so that is what we shall take away from them. We are going to win, because they love life and we love death."
-- Hassan Nasrallah, Leader of Hezbollah

"Israel is our enemy. This is an aggressive, illegal, and illegitimate entity, which has no future in our land. Its destiny is manifested in our motto: 'Death to Israel.'"
-- Hassan Nasrallah, Leader of Hezbollah

"I am against any reconciliation with Israel. I do not even recognize the presence of a state that is called "Israel." I consider its presence both unjust and unlawful."
-- Hassan Nasrallah, Leader of Hezbollah

"For example, a few years ago, a great French philosopher, Roger Garaudy, wrote a scientific book. He did not offend, curse, or insult anyone. He wrote a scientific research of an academic nature, in which he discussed the alleged Jewish Holocaust in Germany. He proved that this Holocaust is a myth."
-- Hassan Nasrallah, Leader of Hezbollah

"Our motto, which we are not afraid to repeat year after year, is 'Death to America'!"
-- Hassan Nasrallah, Leader of Hezbollah

"Let the entire world hear me. Our hostility to the Great Satan [America] is absolute... Regardless of how the world has changed after 11 September, Death to America will remain our reverberating and powerful slogan: Death to America."
-- Hassan Nasrallah, Leader of Hezbollah

"Islam is not just a religion. It is a way of life. It's specific in the Koran that jihad is about fighting. There is no such thing as innocents. The idea of the Islamic state is terror against anyone who doesn't support Islamic ideology."
-- A black American convert initially drawn to Islam by admiration for Malcolm X. Reality

"All you Jews can go straight to hell."
-- Quannell X, National Youth minister for the Nation Of Islam, New York Daily News,
October 17, 1995

"White people are potential humans, they haven't evolved yet."
-- Louis Farrakhan, Leader of the Nation of Islam and recipient of the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago for his "commitment to truth, education and leadership"

"America must be burned! America is no good at all."
-- Louis Farrakhan, Leader of the Nation of Islam and recipient of the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago for his "commitment to truth, education and leadership"

"Many of the Jews who owned the homes, the apartments in the black community, we considered them bloodsuckers because they took from our community and built their community but didn't offer anything back to our community."
-- Louis Farrakhan, Leader of the Nation of Islam and recipient of the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago for his "commitment to truth, education and leadership"

"The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He rose Germany up from the ashes."
-- Louis Farrakhan, Leader of the Nation of Islam, 1984, and recipient of the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago for his "commitment to truth, education and leadership"

"The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the late of fire prepared for him from the beginning, that he never rise again to give any innocent
black man, woman or child the hell that he has delighted in pouring on us
for 400 years."
-- Louis Farrakhan, City College audience in New York, Leader of the Nation of Islam, 1984, and recipient of the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago for his "commitment to truth, education and leadership"

"The death of over 120 white people is a very beautiful thing."
-- Malcolm X, Los Angeles on June 3, 1962 upon learning of a plane
crash